POLICE are asking teenage girls to be vigilant following a series of alarming incidents in the Crewe and Nantwich areas.

On three separate occasions during the evening of Saturday, January 7, 16-year-old girls were approached by a man in a car.

The first incident took place at 5.30pm near the bus station in Beam Street, Nantwich.

A man in a green Vauxhall car pulled up alongside a 16-year-old girl and asked directions. The man is described as being in his late 30s, with dark hair, wearing a long black coat, and the girl describes him as having a ‘foreign accent’. The teenager was concerned enough at the man’s approach to alert her parents who contacted police.

A second incident occurred at 8.22pm in Victoria Avenue, Crewe. A 16-year-old girl, walking near the BMX track, was approached by a man in a green Vauxhall car who asked her and her friend to get into his car.

They declined, but he followed them and repeated the request. Eventually he drove off, heading towards the bowling alley. They describe the man as dark-skinned with black, short hair.

The third incident occurred just 10 minutes later – reported at 8.32pm – involving 16 and 15-year-old girls walking along West Street, Crewe, when a man in a dark green, old shape, green Astra car pulled up alongside them and asked for directions.

The girls provided directions, and walked on, but the man followed them in his car, stopped again and asked them their ages.

The girls tried to knock on the door of a nearby house and raise the alarm, but then ran home and alerted the 16-year-old’s mother who rang police.

Anyone with any information is asked to contact Crewe police on the non emergency number of 101, quoting incident number 741 of 07/01/2012.